{"id":354893,"date":"2026-07-28T13:57:07","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:57:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354893\/"},"modified":"2026-07-28T13:57:07","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T13:57:07","slug":"deadline-to-request-a-mail-in-ballot-for-florida-primary-is-aug-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/354893\/","title":{"rendered":"Deadline to request a mail-in ballot for Florida primary is Aug. 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">SARASOTA, Fla. (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.mysuncoast.com\/\">WWSB<\/a>) &#8211; With the Florida primary election coming up Aug. 18, the Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Office is reminding citizens that the deadline to request a vote-by-mail ballot is Thursday, Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Sarasota County Supervisor of Elections Ron Turner says at requests must be received by his office by 5 p.m. on Aug. 6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThere\u2019s still time to request a vote-by-mail ballot &#8230; but time is running out,\u201d he said in a news release Tuesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Voters may submit a vote-by-mail request three ways:<\/p>\n<p>Online using the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sarasotavotes.gov\/172\/Mail-Ballot-Request-Service\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.sarasotavotes.gov\/172\/Mail-Ballot-Request-Service\">Mail Ballot Request Service<\/a>In person at any of the three elections officesBy phone, at 941-861-8618<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Florida is a closed primary state, which means only voters who are registered members of a political party may vote in that party\u2019s primary Aug. 18. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For voters with minor party or no party affiliation, there will still be races to vote on, including countywide races for three school board seats. Voters in the City of Sarasota will also cast ballots for two at-large city commission seats.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">For more information, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/SarasotaVotes.gov\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/SarasotaVotes.gov\">SarasotaVotes.gov<\/a> or call 941-861-8618.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WWSB. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARASOTA, Fla. (WWSB) &#8211; With the Florida primary election coming up Aug. 18, the Sarasota County Supervisor of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":354894,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[22439,15025,28,30,29,22438,4220],"class_list":["post-354893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-ballot","tag-deadline","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-primary","tag-voting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354893\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}